Resistance

Pension reform or Revolution! Crisis for the French Fifth Republic?

March 31, 2023 UNAC Editor Europe, France, Labor Struggles, Protest, Resistance

by Muhammad Shabeer, published by People’s Dispatch, March 29, 2023 When it bypassed Parliament and forced through pension system changes, Macron’s government exposed the anti-democratic deterioration in the Fifth Republic’s dual-executive system, writes Muhammed Shabeer. Major trade unions in France estimate that two million people hit the streets across France on Tuesday, March 28, denouncing the controversial pension reforms pushed by Emmanuel Macron’s[…]

Protest at the White House, March 18, Against US Proxy War In Ukraine

March 28, 2023 UNAC Editor Cost of War, Democracy and Consent, Ending War, Protest, Resistance, Rights of Opressed Peoples, The War at Home, US Foreign Policy

by John V. Walsh, published on Counterpunch, March 15, 2023 This protest did occur with about 2,500 people in attendance. We rallied across the street from the White House in Lafayette Park, with numerous speakers, then marched through the streets of DC to the Washington Post offices, an then to a church where there was an indoor rally, or “teach-in”[…]

Atlanta Area Police Attack Music Festival, Stop Cop City Battles On

March 9, 2023 UNAC Editor Militarized Police, Organizing, Police Brutality, Resistance, The War at Home, Violence Against Protesters

by Dianne Mathiowetz, published on Workers World, March 7, 2023 Atlanta, March 7 —Workers World writer Dianne Mathiowetz stated: “I was just at a press conference called by various local and national clergy that denounced the police action again as proof that there is nothing about Cop City that suggests de-escalation and protection of people’s rights. There are a significant[…]

Anti-NATO, Anti-EU, Anti-War, Protest Rallies Hit Germany, France, Italy

March 1, 2023 UNAC Editor Anti-Imperialism, Anti-War, Europe, France, Germany, Italy, NATO, Resistance

by the Countercurrents Collective, Countercurrents.org, February 27, 2023 Rallies against the U.S.-led NATO bloc, the EU, supply of weapons to Ukraine and anti-war have been held across France, and in Italy and Germany. At protest sites, demonstrators defaced and tore down NATO and EU flags. Berlin Tens of thousands of Germans braved the elements to attend the Uprising for Peace,[…]

Reflections on a Left-Right Experience

March 1, 2023 UNAC Editor Action!!, Anti-War, Resistance

by Tarak Kauff, published on Peace Planet News, Featured-Winter Edition A few years ago there was a shining moment in that struggle. It seemed as if there was a real promise of hope for the poor — both black and white — through the poverty program. There were experiments, hopes, new beginnings. Then came the buildup in Vietnam, and I[…]

Massive Demonstration in Berlin Against Sending Weapons to Ukraine

February 26, 2023 UNAC Editor Action!!, Anti-War, Germany, Protest, Resistance

Short video from Hindustan Times: Longer video from Syrianna Analysis:

Why Rage Against the War Machine is So #AntiwarSoWhite

February 13, 2023 UNAC Editor Action!!, Anti-Imperialism, Anti-War, Protest, Resistance, The War at Home, Trumpism, US Politics

by Jacqueline Luqman, published on Black Agenda Report, February 8, 2023 I’m looking at this Rage Against The War Machine rally that is being organized by the Libertarian Party and I am genuinely confused about how folks on the left are involved in this at all. Oh, I understand the need to revive and mobilize a strong not just anti-war[…]

Peace Activist Sentenced for Criticizing German War Policy in Ukraine

February 5, 2023 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Free Speech, Germany, Legal Struggles, Resistance

by Justus Leicht, published on the World Socialist Web Site, January 31, 2023 My information is that Heinrich Bücker has appealed his conviction and is waiting for the court to set a new date for his appeal hearing. [jb] The Berlin-Tiergarten District Court sentenced peace activist Heinrich Bücker in January for speaking out in public against Germany’s war policy in[…]

Over 90 Protests Say NO to U.S./NATO Wars

February 2, 2023 UNAC Editor Anti-War, Featured, Protest, Resistance

By Martha Grevatt, published on International Action Center, January 25, 2023 Over 90 coordinated antiwar actions took place Jan. 13-22, honoring Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. during the week of his birthday. “As Martin Luther King Jr. so correctly reminded us, the U.S. is ‘the greatest purveyor of violence in the world,’” stated the United National Antiwar Coalition in its[…]

January 22 Oakland, CA United National Antiwar Coalition Rally Draws New Support

January 26, 2023 UNAC Editor Action!!, Protest, Resistance, The War at Home

by Jeff Mackler, January 25, 2023 The United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC) call for January 14-22, 2023 nationally-coordinated antiwar and social justice protests commemorating Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthdate drew actions in 90 U.S. cities. The protests recalled Dr. King’s historic condemnation of the U.S. war in Vietnam when he excoriated that ten-year genocidal horror that took the lives[…]